Class Note 1977
Issue
Greetings to all. My husband and I are now officially “empty nesters” after 30 years of having a child in our home—my oldest was born in 1980! They say that children keep you young, so I guess I’m ready for grandchildren. How many of us have grandchildren? Ellen McLaughlin Saturley asked the same question as she notified me that she and her husband, Bill, became grandparents in April. William Emory Davies, their dual-citizen grandson, was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and they have twice traveled there to welcome him to their family. I know that John Douglass and Cindy Strange Douglass are expecting their first grandchild from daughter Emily. Cindy and John, Daryl O’Brien Palmer and her husband, Tom, Vin Pellegrino and Nancy Bird Pellegrino, my husband, Dave, and I all got together at Vin and Nancy’s home on the Severn River outside of Annapolis, Maryland, in mid-May. The girls caught up while the guys played golf. In spite of Vin’s hectic work and travel schedule—he and Nancy were leaving for Japan a few days later—he still has a mean golf game, honed at Dartmouth when he played for the golf team. I tried to get my fellow Distractions to sing a few of the old songs, but they would have nothing of it!
Speaking of Distractions, another one of our original group, Jean Rosston, wrote from her home in Switzerland: “A reunion someday of the old-time Distractions would be fun! Give me some advanced warning and perhaps I could make it—from Zurich to wherever in the USA takes some planning! I am still singing with a very good city chorus in Zurich. We could even organize a reunion here in Switzerland—I could also arrange a personal tour of our fine arts museum, including behind the scenes!” We’ll have to work on that one!
Jeff Lyon checked in from Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with news of his recent visit to campus. On Sunday, June 13, his son, Jason, graduated with the class of ’10. Jeff enclosed a family photograph representing 61 years of Lyons at Dartmouth. Besides himself and Jason, daughter Jill is a ’13, daughter Kate is an ’05 and his father, Ed, is a ’52.
I also received a family photo from Anne Goode Stalker from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her third child, Peter, just graduated from high school and is attending Colgate this fall. Two of her daughters have finished college, graduating from Bucknell and Dickinson. Anne plans on spending two weeks in August working in a Chinese orphanage with her 12-year-old daughter, Helen, whom she and her husband, Peter, adopted from China 11 years ago. Anne has been getting a lot of skiing in: 77 days last year and 82 days this year. She mentioned that number was significant as she was married to her husband, whom she met at a Dartmouth/Princeton rugby game, in 1982.
Thanks for the news—it’s great to hear from you.
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@comcast.net
Sept - Oct 2010
Greetings to all. My husband and I are now officially “empty nesters” after 30 years of having a child in our home—my oldest was born in 1980! They say that children keep you young, so I guess I’m ready for grandchildren. How many of us have grandchildren? Ellen McLaughlin Saturley asked the same question as she notified me that she and her husband, Bill, became grandparents in April. William Emory Davies, their dual-citizen grandson, was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and they have twice traveled there to welcome him to their family. I know that John Douglass and Cindy Strange Douglass are expecting their first grandchild from daughter Emily. Cindy and John, Daryl O’Brien Palmer and her husband, Tom, Vin Pellegrino and Nancy Bird Pellegrino, my husband, Dave, and I all got together at Vin and Nancy’s home on the Severn River outside of Annapolis, Maryland, in mid-May. The girls caught up while the guys played golf. In spite of Vin’s hectic work and travel schedule—he and Nancy were leaving for Japan a few days later—he still has a mean golf game, honed at Dartmouth when he played for the golf team. I tried to get my fellow Distractions to sing a few of the old songs, but they would have nothing of it!
Speaking of Distractions, another one of our original group, Jean Rosston, wrote from her home in Switzerland: “A reunion someday of the old-time Distractions would be fun! Give me some advanced warning and perhaps I could make it—from Zurich to wherever in the USA takes some planning! I am still singing with a very good city chorus in Zurich. We could even organize a reunion here in Switzerland—I could also arrange a personal tour of our fine arts museum, including behind the scenes!” We’ll have to work on that one!
Jeff Lyon checked in from Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with news of his recent visit to campus. On Sunday, June 13, his son, Jason, graduated with the class of ’10. Jeff enclosed a family photograph representing 61 years of Lyons at Dartmouth. Besides himself and Jason, daughter Jill is a ’13, daughter Kate is an ’05 and his father, Ed, is a ’52.
I also received a family photo from Anne Goode Stalker from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her third child, Peter, just graduated from high school and is attending Colgate this fall. Two of her daughters have finished college, graduating from Bucknell and Dickinson. Anne plans on spending two weeks in August working in a Chinese orphanage with her 12-year-old daughter, Helen, whom she and her husband, Peter, adopted from China 11 years ago. Anne has been getting a lot of skiing in: 77 days last year and 82 days this year. She mentioned that number was significant as she was married to her husband, whom she met at a Dartmouth/Princeton rugby game, in 1982.
Thanks for the news—it’s great to hear from you.
—Kathy Kelley Cimina, 6 Martins Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073; (610) 356-4685; cohasset73@comcast.net